A campaign has been launched to pressure Glasgow's NHS to change the processes used to pay temporary staff.

An online petition calling on a revamp of the way bank nurses are allocated cash has been signed by more than 2,000 people in just a couple of days after fears were raised that dozens of workers are losing out on wages each week.

Those on NHS Greater Clyde and Glasgow's Nursing and Midwifery Bank, the largest provider of temporary medical staff in Scotland, are required to get shifts signed off by ward bosses before 12 pm every Friday, in order to ensure payment for the following Friday.

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However there have been issues with nurses not being able to complete get their documents completed in time, leading Govan-based community activist John Beattie to slam the NHSGGC payment system as a "lottery".

He said: "There has been a constant and persistent problem with this method.

"Frequently shifts are not being signed-off on time by the designated ward staff. This results in the individual not being paid for the shift the following week.

"This creates financial difficulties and hardships for bank staff as each coming Friday becomes a lottery as to whether you will be sufficiently paid for your previous week's work.

"The failure on the part of the NHSGGC bank system to ensure staff are paid leaves staff not only underpaid but not paid at all."

He added: "We are calling on NHSGGC to fix this glaring problem in their payment system. The failure of NHSGGC to ensure safeguarding measures in relation to paying its staff is unacceptable, especially during these harsh economic times when many of us are struggling to make ends meet. We cannot wait for payment because our children cannot wait for food.

"Either revert to a default method of automatically paying staff who are registered for bank shifts or implement a safeguarding measure to ensure all bank staff get paid their full wages on time."

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An NHS spokesperson told Glasgow Live bosses are working to address the issues.

There are currently 7,500 staff on the Nursing and Midwifery Bank, which provides temporary workers to clinical areas across the area's NHS.

A spokesperson for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said: "NHSGGC values the contribution made by all of our nurse bank workers and we could not provide our services without their commitment and dedication.

"Each week NHSGGC fills between 6,000-7,000 nursing bank shifts.

"These need to be signed off by a local manager to be processed the following week. Of these shifts, regrettably there can be a delay of payment by one week for a small number of shifts, around 50 per week. This number continues to reduce.

"We are working with local management teams to ensure all shifts payments are paid promptly."